>> this time i think that-- i think that it is realistic, the possibility of an american pope. >> reporter: a pope from a super power has generally been dismissed as more than the rest of the world could deal with according to author father thomas reese. >> many people in the third world would simply conclude, well, the c.i.a. must have fixed the election or wall street bought off the cardinals. that's not the kind of image that we want. >> reporter: the americans bolstered their image by pushing back against the vatican's ingrained tendency to secrecy. their daily briefings were so popular the college of cardinals forced them to stop. it's considered bad taste to openly want to be in the race. timothy dolan used his radio show to dismiss the idea. >> i miss new york. i'm running out of socks. >> reporter: cardinal shawn o'malley of boston hung his chances on his brown robes. >> i have worn this uniform for over 40 years and i presume i will wear it until i die because

i don't expect to be elected pope. >> reporter: the americans are outsiders rather than front- runners, but the very fact that their names are in play is ang indication that the church is looking hard at the need for new leadership. jim. >> axelrod: thank you, alan. cbs news will be in vatican city for live coverage of the conclave beginning monday on cbs this morning and the cbs evening news. nelson mandela is in a hospital in pretoria tonight. doctors say the former president of south africa has been admitted for routine tests and that there is "no cause for f alarm." >> this is the second time in three months that he's been hospitalize. nelson mandela turns 95 in july. the u.s. secretary of defense chuck hagel in afghanistan for the first time since joining the cabinet and the taliban have sent a bloody message as a welcome.

two sucide bombers struck on his first morning there. least 19 people, including eight children, are dead. charlie d'agata reports from f kabul. >> reporter: police said a suicide bomb or a bicycle got to within 30 yards of the afghan defense ministry before blowing himself up. nine people were killed and 14 were wounded. the majority were civilians. the taliban claimed responsibility saying it was a message to defense secretary chuck hagel. hagel was nowhere the blast. he was at the coalition military headquarters and was moved to a more secure location within the base after the explosion. >> we're in a war zone. i've been in war. >> reporter: he gave his condolences for the afghan victims. aside from security concerns the defense secretary's visit comes at a time over increasing tensions over the u.s. exit strategy. to start with, full control of the contentious bagram prison was supposed to be transferred to afghans today but it wasne

postponed. bagram is the largest u.s. prison in afghanistan and at the height of war held 3,000 prisoners. today it was down to the last 50 detainees. earlier this week, afghan president hamid karzai said some prisoners would be freed after the handover. the u.s. has been insisting on a veto over any detainee releases. the top u.s. commander, general joe dunford, doesn't seem to be budging. >> if there are people who need to be detained we will be ensure they are detained. >> reporter: the visit coincides with another deadline, jim. it's tomorrow when president hamid karzai has demanded the withdrawal of all u.s. special forces from the wardak district. he's accuse them of overcease afghan militias who murder and torture, accusations the u.s.he flatley denies. >> axelrod: a late winter blizzard was supposed to smack parts of colorado today.

forecasters had expected up to 16 inches of snow. but warmer-than-expects temperatures weakened the te storm's punch, just two inches fell in denver, though ice and high winds forced cancellationel of roughly 400 flights. it was just the opposite in new england where they're cleaning up after a nor'easter that was much more severe than many expected. here's terrell brown. >> reporter: the two-day storm dumped more than a foot of snow in the northeast. high winds and rain left towns flood along coast. on plum island, massachusetts, the pounding storm surge nearly swept homes into the ocean and many residents never saw it coming. >> we're coming up on the high tide. this tide is much larger than we would have anticipated. >> reporter: the storm began blanketing snow across the upper midwest and mid-atlantic earlier in the week before moving out to sea. barry burbank has called the

weather for wbz-tv in boston for 35 years. >> we knew we would get a little piece of the storm, and then it continued to move way, way out over the ocean. but a strange pattern was developing so the moisture was captured from the storm and pulled all the way westward and deposited it right over new england. >> reporter: what was supposed to be 4-8 inches of snow became two feet in some areas. and the snow fell fast. one-day snowfall records were broken across the state, including boston, with 10.2 inches. >> i've never seen anything quite like this. seen a lot of big storms but a setup like this is extremely bizarre. >> reporter: and burbank predicts more storm weather for the northeast through the beginning of spring, which officially starts in 10 days. terrell brown, cbs news, new york. >> axelrod: cbs news has learned thomas perez is president obama's choice to be the next secretary of labor. perez, who is 51, would replace hilda solice. he currently heads the civil

rights division at the justice department. here's a high-profile way the across-the-board spending cuts in the federal budget are affecting the government. tours of the white house have been canceled indefinitely. the move saves the government about $74,000 a week. despite the sequester, the stock market is soaring, hitting a new record high. the closed at 14,397 yesterday up more than 300 point per the week. as chip reed reports, some jobs came from companies making products in america again. >> i do like the color. >> reporter: may she started making candles 18 years ago in the basement of her maryland home, molding them in soup cans. today, she runs the chesapeake bay candle company, which brings in nearly $90 million a year. as her business boomed, she moved manufacturing operations

to china to take advantage of the low cost of labor. but as chinese labor costs rose, she was forced to lay off many of her workers. four years ago, this factory in china was filled with assembly lines like this one. back then there were 2,000 workers here. now it's down to 300. >> the labor cost also over the last two decades in china has built up to a level already where in the last five years for example, it's been up every- - by 30% every year. >> reporter: add rising fuel costs for transporting candles halfway around the world, and may she said the advantage of doing business in china disappeared. now, she's relocated jobs from china to the u.s. but not nearly add many. a single worker her maryland factory does the work of 10 in china. >> that is the only reason we can actually bring jobs here is highly automated. >> reporter: how would you

compare the productivity of american and chinese workers? >> my chinese staff are more willing to do whatever it takes, but american workers are more thoughtful. they will give me comment about the product. they will tell me what's working and what's not. >> reporter: and she says there's another big advantage to coming home. do you take pride in the fact that these candles are now madedl here in the u.s.a.? >> huge. we're shipping those to china. that's the most profound happiness i find. >> reporter: her marylandor factory now has about 60 employees and she plans to add 15-20 more in the coming months to satisfy growing demand for her "made in america" candles all around world. chip reid, cbs news, glen burney, maryland. >> axelrod: later, evidence that burn pits in iraq and afghanistan put the health of u.s. soldiers at risk. yankee closure mariano rivera

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>> i'm lloyd blankfein, chairman of goldman sachs and i support marriage equality. >> reporter: blankfein was the first leader in corporate america to take a public stand in a commercial recorded early last year. he explained why to jill schlesinger. >> reporter: could you make the business case for marriage equality or just generally civil rights in this organization? >> the business case for marriage equality is the same as the business case for diversity. we're a talent business. we need to attract and retain the most talented people. and we want to be attractive to the most diverse groups there are. and that includes people who are part of same-sex couples. it's a civil rights issue, but it's also a business issue. the ability for employment benefits to be shared among spouses all hinges on being able to deal with families of gay people in the same way that you

deal with families of straight people. >> reporter: so you did this video for human rights campaign which was all over youtube. and i read that you actually lost one big client who had a religious affiliation. >> i understood completely why they did it. i didn't like it. but i understood it. and by the way, they understood why we were taking the postion that we did. so i'm not saying we're not friends but we're not managing their money. >> reporter: see i have to read you a quote which is from thepo conservative family research council. they are blaming, "a corporate environment dictated by wealth pro-homosexual activists" for the growing corporate support for same-sex marriage. how do you react to that? >> i'm not biased. i'm trying to have a neutra workplace environment that is as inviting for all people. to the extent there are other companies or industries which

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the toxin has killed 1 final manatees so far this year, the most ever killed by red tide 151 manatees in 1996. now to a mysterious illness afflicting veterans of iraq and afghanistan. it's a crippling lung disease targeting soldiers who worked near burn pits. the wife of one stricken soldier is watching her husband search and fighting the battle he no longer can. >> reporter: leroy torres was a texas state trooper and captain in the army reserves when he deployed for a yearlong combat tour to iraq in 2007. >> the minute he got back, he was hospitalized. right when he got back it was like, another it is iraqi crud that's what we kept hearing. after a few weeks he started having these breathing attacks and it was the scariest moment ever for us. >> reporter: leroy's wife, rosy, said her husband's health issues resulted from exposure to open- air burn pits which the u.s. military used in iraq and

afghanistan to torch everything from batteries to body parts. the department of veteran affairs acknowledge where torres was base exposed to several hundred tons per day. >> i was very close to the burn pit but we didn't think nothing of it. >> reporter: today, at age 40, leroy is barely able to leave bed most days. his doctors have diagnosed him with a lung disease-- constrictive bronchiolitis. he has a legion on his brain and cysts on his spleen and join groin. >> sometimes the headache lasts for three hours and i've had a headache for eight days, eight days straight. this is unexplainable. >> i remember one night thinking, who am i holding? like, what happened to the man that i married? it was at that moment that iha thought this is it. i'm going to have to be his advocate. >> reporter: rosy launched a web site for those exposed to burn pits can register. she also lobbied congress to take action.

in january, president obama signed a law giving the secretary of veterans affairs one year to create a national registry to track potential burn pit victims. if it wasn't for rosy torres would this law be in existence? >> i don't think so. >> reporter: dr. anthony szema is a professor at stone brook school of medicine. he's been analyzing dusts from near burn pits. how toxic is that dust? >> this dust is very toxic. >> reporter: he says 14% of veterans he's studied return with some sort of lung complication. >> i think, clearly, we don't allow people to burn things in an unregulated fashion in the united states, and we have e.p.a. limits against the number a of particles in the air. >> reporter: so they shouldn't s be doing it over year. >> they should not be doing it over there. >> reporter: as leroy's condition worsens, he may not benefit from the new law. his dream job is gone already. >> it ended his career as a trooper. >> reporter: never go back. >> never.

sorry. >> reporter: the national registry of burn pit victims won't be out until at least 2014. in the meantime, doctors are relying on rosy's unofficial registry. her information, her continuing search for answers. jeff glor, cbs news, robstown, texas.st >> axelrod: up next, he's never won a cy young award and has never been named baseball's mvp. why it matters that mariano rivera will say good-bye. an intense burning sensation like somebody had set it on fire. and the doctor said, cindie, you have shingles. he said, you had chickenpox when you were a little girl... i said, yes, i did. i don't think anybody ever thinks they're going to get shingles. but it happened to me. for more of the inside story visit shinglesinfo.com

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life. phillips'. >> axelrod: they held a memorial service in ohio today to honor retired major thomas griffin who died last week at the age of 96. just months after pearl harbor he was one of the doolittle raiders who boosted u.s. moral with a first bombing run over tokyo. of the 80 airmen on that raid, only four are still alive. today mariano rivera gave new york yankees fans reason to hop this season goes very slowly. the lights-out relief pitcher, considers baseball's best closer ever, announced this season will be his last. here's tony guida. >> reporter: mariano rivera began training for his 19th baseball season this afternoon

doing what he always does-- overpowering batters. three phased him, not got a hit, the last two struck out. never in baseball history has there been anyone like rivera when the pressure is greatest in the game's final inning-- >> strike three, ball game over! >> reporter: rivera is unflappable. he has 608 saves, the major league record. >> i don't feel myself the greatest of all time. >> reporter: with typical modesty, the 43-year-old made official today what everyone already knew... >> i am retiring of the game they love, and have enjoyed for so many years. >> reporter: rivera has five world series rings. he has been especiallyn unhittable in the postseason. >> people come up there and it's like they have paper bats. >> reporter: ira berkow say pulitzer prize-winning sports writer. >> nobody in any profession has succeeded greater than he did in his profession. >> reporter: rivera built his success on a single pitch called s a cut fastball.

to a batter it appears straight and hittable, but at the lasthi second, it swerves out of harm's way. his cutter will send rivera to baseball's hall of fame. >> if it wasn't for my teammates, i would never have the opportunity. that is the legacy i want to leave, that i was there for others. >> reporter: the others are the new york yankees, the only team rivera has ever pitched for. tony guida, cbs news, new york. >> axelrod: finally tonight, spring forward. a reminder that daylight saving time returns to most of the country tomorrow morning at 2:00 a.m. clocks should be set ahead one hour. and that is the cbs evening news for tonight. i'm jim axelrod in new york. for all of us here at cbs news good night. captioning sponsored by cbs captioned by media access group at wgbh access.wgbh.org

covered in concrete... we can look ahead to the next milestone one week away. a bridge with no more gaps. now that the new bay bridge is covered in concrete, we can look ahead to the next milestone just a week away. >> a sailboat race off the coast turns deadly. what led up to the crash. >> and the woman accused of selling fake tickets to disneyland. how a couple of victims got revenge by going undercover. kpix 5 news is next.

>> your realtime captioner: linda marie macdonald good evening. i'm ann notarangelo. a construction milestone on the eastern span of the bay bridge today. this is what the unfinished section of the new roadway looked like yesterday and at a dozens of trucks -- today dozens of trucks carrying concrete filled in the final section of the deck.

the grand opening is less than 6 months away. kpix 5 reporter anne makovec tells us about the strategy allowing some of this work to be done ahead of schedule. reporter: it's another piece of history as the concrete is poured for the last section of the new bay bridge deck. >> you will see continuous bridge decks eastbound and westbound after today. you won't see all this rebar. you wouldn't see a gap in the bridge. >> reporter: 136 concrete trucks went to work this morning carrying more than 1200 cubic yards of concrete to fill the length of three football fields. there's still some work to do paving and installing joints, but the roadway is almost complete. >> i think everyone's really getting excited and it's feeling a little more real. >> reporter: they were able to do this work up there today because of a change in the schedule made two years ago that will allow both the east- and westbound lanes to be opened at the same time. >> because of some strategic planning, they are able to move all the traffic safely out of the way and finish this project. >> reporter: in february of 2012, caltrans closed the westboun